“Light Plaza and XML For All, Inc. today announced the
release of two Internet document delivery systems: The Light Plaza
ScanServer is used to quickly scan paper documents and books and to
prepare them for Internet delivery. The Light Plaza BookServer is a
high-performance Internet document server. A typical configuration
consist of one or more ScanServer document entry stations feeding
into a single BookServer that delivers those documents over the
Internet.”
“Both the ScanServer and BookServer are out-of-the-box
ready-to-use turnkey systems. Using these systems, new documents
can be easily brought up on the Internet in a matter of
minutes.”
“The ScanServer is built around a Celeron-based Windows NT
workstation and includes a high-speed autofeed, double-sided
document scanner as well as a special “edge scanner” that makes it
easy to scan books WITHOUT removing their bindings. The BookServer
is built around a Pentium-based Linux workstation. Both systems
include a CD-RW drive and software for entering and editing meta
data; full support for black-and-white, grey-scale, and color tiff,
jpeg, and postscript documents; OCR, index and full-text search of
scanned documents; high-performance on-the-fly creation and
delivery of gif images to client browsers; and an advanced
scripting system from XML For All. The use of XML for all meta data
together with the inclusion of XML For All script source for the
entire user interface yields a system that is completely open and
exceptionally easy to customize.”